Phyllanthus.] CXVII. EUPHORBIACE^. 1419 



somewhat angular. Leaves distichous, oblong-linear or cuneate, obtuse or 

 mucronate, contracted towards the base but sessile or nearly so, -J to lin. long. 

 Stipules usually bordered with white. Flowers very small, usually 1 female with 

 or without 2 or 3 males in each axil, the pedicels about | line long. Male 

 perianth -segments G, obovate, about J line long. Glands minute. Anthers 3, 

 distinct, erect on the top of a short column, the cells parallel. Female perianth 

 about twice the size of the male. Ovary 8-celled. Styles distinct, spreading, 

 dilated and very shortly 2-lobed at the end. Capsule depressed, 3-furrowed, about 

 1^ line diameter. Seeds elegantly marked on the back with minute tubercles 

 arranged in 10 to 12 longitudinal rows. — Wight Ic. t. 1895 ; P. hraihypodus, 

 F. V. M. in several herb. 



Hab : Rockhampton, Bowmax, O'Shanesy; Charleville, Giles; Peak Downs, Burldlt; 

 <jreorgiiia lliver, A. II. GUssoii. 



The species is common in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. The 

 shape of the leaves in the Australian specimens is very nearly that figured by Wight, 

 4ilthough much narrower than in the commoner forms of the species. 



10. P. IMEitchelli (after Sir T. Mitchell), Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 103. An 

 -erect bushy shrub, much resembling some of the narrow-leaved less pubescent 

 forms of r. tlii/moUes, with which it is united by Miiell. Arg., but the plant is 

 ■quite glabrous, the male flowers larger on shorter pedicels, with the segments 

 more united at the base, and the filaments united to above the middle. 

 Leaves not distichous, narrow-cuneate, rigid, complicate, 1^ to 8 lines long. 

 Flowers probably diojcious, all males in the specimens seen. — Micrantheum 

 irianilriiiii, Ilook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 342; P. triandnis, Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 195 (among the species excluded from Micra-nthewn) a 

 name reserved p. 299 for the Kinjmuhia triandm, Blanco; P. thymoidea, var. 

 Muell. Arg I.e. 372. 



Hab.: Pyramid Depot, Mitchell. 



11. P. Gasstrcemii (after — . Gasstrosm), ISiiidl. Arg. in DC. Prod. 

 XV. ii. 858 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 104. An erect glabrous shrub or under- 

 «hrub of 1 to 2ft., the branches often compressed, the smaller ones slender. 

 Leaves very shortly petiolate, obovate-oblong, very obtuse, contracted at 

 the base, membranous, from under -J-in. to nearly fin. long. Stipules 

 Torown. Flowers very small, montecious or almost dioecious, the males 

 in clusters of 3 or 4, the females solitary. Male perianth-segments usually 

 <5, about |- . line long, very obtuse and petal-like with dark centres. Glands 

 small. Anthers 3, distinct, ovate, rather large, erect on a short slender 

 ■column, the cells parallel, minutely tipped with the projecting connective. 

 Female perianth-segments larger and more acute than in the males, but not 

 enlarged after flowering as in P. DaUachyanus, greenish, bordered with white. 

 Ovary 3-celled. Styles longer than the ovary, linear, bifid according to Mueller 

 Arg., or entire. Capsule depressed-globular, glabrous, smooth, about 2 lines 

 diameter. — P. indiijuferoidi'x, A. Cunn. Herb. 



Hab.: Burnett Eiver, P. v. Mueller ; and many other southern localities, Walsh's Pyramid in 

 the North. 



12. P. Dallachyanus (after J. Dallachy), Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 104. A 

 glabrous shrub, the young branches often flattened, the smaller branchlets 

 slender, 3 to 5in. long. Leaves distichous, obovate broadly oblong or almost 

 -orbicular. Flowers monoecious, the males clustered few together on filiform 

 pedicels of about 2 lines, the females solitary in a very few of the upper axils 

 and on some branches none at all, the pedicels either not longer than the 

 males or sometimes Jin. long. Male perianth-segments ovate, petal-like, obtuse 

 -or mucronai^e, f to nearly 1 line long. Stamens 3, the filaments united to about 

 ihe middle ; anther-cells parallel, but separated by a broad thick connective. 



